Akin Jones
Biography
Akin Jones is the Co-founder and CEO of Aella. Prior to this, Akin held key investment banking roles in Africa and North America. With the team at Aella, he is building the largest agency lending platform in the globe through the debt-as-a-service model, first of its kind, to provide empowerment-focused products for banking agents in Africa. Akin graduated with a degree in International Business & Finance from Howard University and is one of a very few individuals that have completed three of the leading Technology accelerator programs, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and the Barclays Rise Accelerator.
About Aella
Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are a team of innovators building products to help foster financial inclusion in the African continent.
Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that every agent in Nigeria is able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnership with 11 of the leading agency banks in Nigeria.